NASCAR: Front Row Motorsports looking to find magic at Daytona

1:46 AM,
Jul. 3, 2014

David Gilliland

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Nate Ryan
USA TODAY Sports

Front Row Motorsports still trails the Sprint Cup garage in wringing the necessary speed from the setups prompted by a wave of rule and suspension changes. The underdog team still is hurting from the lack of support derived by an alliance with a NASCAR powerhouse. Placing its two Fords in the top 30 for the second straight season (which would be worth at least a few hundred thousand dollars in bonuses) still is daunting.

All of those concerns, though, seem minimized this week at the team's modest shop in Statesville, N.C., where the atmosphere has been decidedly charged despite a mostly dismal ...